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Re: Introducing: GUS Team 228's 2007 Website!

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Originally Posted by Chris Marra View Post
Art, any chance of releasing the source code? :-P

But really, the site looks great. It is very easy to navigate, has tons of information, and of course, the backend that serves all of it up must be amazing. Is it designed so that even mentors, or new team members could use it without a walk-through to add/edit/manage information in the future?
I did provide the source code to Greg for any potential use on The Blue Alliance's website. But I wouldn't count it out of the question for the base "module" and tagging system source code to be released to the public. Eventually. ;-) But I would have a lot of things to "clean up" in the code first, as I hard coded in a bunch of team228.org specific code.

The backend is still coming along, and I still have a lot of features to add to it to simplify the process as much as possible. But to speak of the simplicity of the system, I had freshmen on our team who have never coded anything before able to go through, (and after a quick five minute explanation) upload pictures into a photo gallery, and add complete descriptions and tags to them. Most of the 2007 pictures in the galleries had their descriptions and tags added by students on our team who don't have knowledge or experience in HTML.

On all the other pages, such as the What's Gus pages, I used very simple HTML code in all of them, so that adding/updating content would be typing up a post here on CD. I use <h2>, <h4>, <img>, <p>, <strong>, <em>, and <a>. And that's it. Learning how to use seven HTML tags is very easy, so keeping these pages updated should be easy as well.

Thanks for the positive feedback everyone!
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